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I have 1210 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3476258 times and 1243 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1860 of my 16,036 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1913 votes

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Sean Happens 5

Mum sent Sean up to the Potter house to apologise. When she’d heard what happened, ‘I’m black mortified,’ she’d said. She’d waved away the idea of...
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Sean Happens 4

Sean hugged himself in the back of his Uncle’s van. He squatted,shuggling sideways, breathing through his nose the musty smells. Human debris withthe...
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Sean Happens 3

Dad was sitting dozing outside the kitchen on a hard wooden seat. His balding head and ear were scarlet, and the sun had taken a blowtorch to his...
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Shug Happens 2

‘I want Shadow!’ Sean wailed and cried so much he choked like an asthmatic on his own last breath. Mum had to hold on to her son or Sean would...
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Hillsborough

Be damned your Maxwell and Murdochs Poodle politicians and Tory scum On a private-public leash Hauled o’er the Lepping Lane The smashed road of David...
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1860 of my comments have received 1913 Great Feedback votes

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too soft for the contest. too

Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026

too soft for the contest. too bright to care. 

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Posted in Shadow Boxers in A Back Street

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I hope the grimmoire insn't

Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026

I hope the grimmoire insn't in Brummie or we're all fucked? 

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (10)

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Not a cat and dog kind of

Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026

Not a cat and dog kind of story, but reminds me of some loch ness longings. But it might just have been a tea-towel I owned. 

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Posted in Auntie Nessie

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looks like another train hop

Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026

looks like another train hop or jump? 

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Posted in "Art of Trouble" 9

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lovely in some many ways. 

Posted on Thu, 12 Feb 2026

lovely in some many ways. 

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Posted in Tom All Alone (12)

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like the fog, I'd forgotten

Posted on Thu, 12 Feb 2026

like the fog, I'd forgotten much, but was soon wrapped in the tale. Great ending. 

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (9)

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weird is sometime good. But

Posted on Tue, 10 Feb 2026

weird is sometime good. But not always. 

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Posted in Let's Make Believe

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that's a maybe. I'm mates

Posted on Mon, 09 Feb 2026

that's a maybe. I'm mates with Bono. 

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Posted in Michael

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Mr Muggins may well have lost

Posted on Mon, 09 Feb 2026

Mr Muggins may well have lost his foodwear but he did find Trumpenstien  madness. Unfortunately both are rather wearing. 

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Posted in Glastonbury Festival 26 - 29th June 2025 Provokes Memories Of His Own Attendance In 1987 by Alfred N.Muggins

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a gentle build, good and true

Posted on Sun, 08 Feb 2026

a gentle build, good and true. 

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Posted in The Lady on Sycamore Lane (1)

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